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Chapter 264
“You see it now, my King,” Lyra sent her thoughts across the ocean, sliding smoothly into Elijah’s mind. “You see the math.”Elijah sat on his throne. “I see it, Lyra. You moved a mountain through a needle.”“You are the machine, Elijah,” Lyra thought. She watched as a giant mud-hound tried to leap at her. She lazily waved her hand, opening a portal in front of the hound, and dropping it into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. “A machine needs rigid rules. A machine needs heavy iron parts to work. You are the iron. Marcus is the iron.”Lyra floated down closer to the battle. Her Shadow Legion was pushing the demons back into the ruins. “But a machine with only iron will break itself,” Lyra continued, her cold voice whispering in the King’s ear. “Iron grinds against iron. It creates friction. You need something soft to make the parts move perfectly.”Elijah pushed more magma heat into the walls of the Spire, burning the Colossus. “You are not soft anymore, Lyra.”“I am not meat,” Lyra
Chapter 263
The soldiers sank up to their chests. Then their necks. Then, they were gone. The 50th floor of the Spire was completely empty. Three thousand miles away, in the wet, ruined streets of London. Thousands of ugly, muddy demons were clawing at the black glass Spirelet outside Westminster Abbey. They were howling and screaming, trying to pull the tower down. Suddenly, the dark shadows cast by the broken stone buildings began to bubble. Like rising from a deep pool of water, a black glass helmet broke the surface of a shadow on the street. Then shoulders. Then weapons. In total, perfect silence, 500 soldiers of the Shadow Legion rose directly out of the ground. They stepped out of the shadows and onto the wet cobblestone streets of London. They were completely unharmed. Their armor was cold, but their violet magic burned brightly. The demons stopped clawing at the tower. They turned around, confused. A massive army had just appeared out of nowhere. “Burn them to ash,” Lyra’s voice
Chapter 262
"Lyra," Elijah said. "London is falling. If London breaks, Adam will destroy the Spire. But I cannot leave the throne."“I know,” Lyra replied in his mind. “You are the heavy engine. You make the power. You make the rules. But engines do not move across oceans.”Lyra raised her hand made of absolute darkness. “I will take the reserve army to London,” Lyra promised. "How?" Elijah asked. His Overclocked brain could not find a mathematical solution. "The airships are too slow. You can teleport yourself through the shadows, yes. But you cannot carry 500 heavy soldiers with you. The Void-Bleed will tear normal humans apart."Lyra’s faceless head tilted slightly. Even without a mouth, Elijah could feel her smiling. It was a cold, arrogant, beautiful smile. “I am the Mistress of the Bleed,” Lyra corrected him gently. “The Void does not tear things apart when I tell it to behave. Watch me, Sovereign.”Lyra did not walk to the door. She simply sank into the shadow of the throne and vanished.
Chapter 261
The giant hands of the Colossus slammed against the Obsidian Spire. The sound was terrible. It was the sound of a million tons of wet, red meat hitting solid black glass. The entire 200-story tower shook violently. Inside the throne room, the shattered pieces of window glass jumped off the floor. Elijah sat perfectly still on his throne. The heavy silver cables connected his spine to the chair. "Burn it," Elijah commanded. He pushed his Overclocked brain to the limit. He pulled raw magic from the Earth’s magma and forced it into the walls of the Spire. The black glass of the building suddenly turned blinding white. It became hotter than the surface of the sun. Outside, the Colossus roared in agony. The white-hot glass burned its giant, fleshy hands. Billions of gallons of boiling blood turned into red steam, filling the sky over New York. Standing on the monster’s shoulder, Adam the Plumber laughed through his golden megaphone. "Very good, King!" Adam cheered. "You can burn my
Chapter 260
Lyra reached her matte-black hand up. She felt the crackling, cold energy of the Violet Crown hovering over her hair. She felt the heavy, undeniable authority woven into the magic. "The light and the shadow are two halves of the same system," Elijah said. He stood tall, his silver circuits pulsing in time with the crown. "I am the Engine that runs the world. I am the shield that protects the sky. But I am too heavy. I am chained to this throne."Elijah pointed his finger toward the glass windows, where the giant Colossus of Rot was pounding on the shield. "I cannot leave this room," Elijah continued. "If I move, the Grey Web falls, and the world dies. I am the ultimate defense. But a shield cannot swing a sword."Elijah looked back at Lyra. "You are the sword, Lyra," Elijah declared. "You are the ghost in the machine. You can teleport anywhere on the planet in a microsecond. You can slip through any rule. You are the only thing in this universe that the Archangels cannot predict."
Chapter 259
Two tiny, glowing violet pinpricks burned in the center of the dark mask. They were sharp, cold, and full of ancient, dangerous magic. Lyra took a step forward. But she did not walk like a normal person. Her movements were totally un-synced with reality. She lifted her foot, and then, she was instantly standing two feet closer. She did not travel the distance between the two spots. She flickered. She looked like a video game character lagging on a broken screen. She skipped frames of time. She was suddenly standing right in front of Elijah’s throne. She did not open a mouth to speak. Her thought-voice slid directly into Elijah’s mind. It was cold, smooth, and absolute. “The basement is secure, my King,” Lyra reported. Her mental voice did not tremble. “The Architect of Life is safe. Marcus is guarding the roots. The Crimson Rot inside the building has been deleted.”Elijah looked at her. His Overclocked brain processed her new form in a microsecond. But the 3% humanity in his ches
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